Re: Data recovery
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Jason Whittle wrote:
> I managed to reformat my /usr/local partition (ext2; not backwards compatible) and I was wondering
> if there was any way to recover some of the data I lost by doing that. I haven't written anything
> to the partition since reformatting, so nothing's been zeroed except the very highest-level stuff.
> Is this sort of thing possible, or should I just remount it and start filling it up again?
>
I've never tried it myself, but you can find a HOWTO on it
here:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Ext2fs-Undeletion.html
Note that I found this with about two clicks by searching for
"recovering deleted data from ext2" on Google.
Take care,
Zonker
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